This article is the results of research on StakeRare, Stakeholder- and Recommender- assisted method for requirements elicitation, a method that is used to identify and prioritize requirements for requirements elicitation using social networks and cooperative filtering. The article states that by using social networks and cooperative filtering three common problems large-scale requirements engineering can be alleviated. These problems are information overload, poor stakeholder input, and predisposed prioritization of requirements. Information overload is unavoidable in large projects as there can be many stakeholders and requirements. Poor stakeholder input due to not recognizing, or allowing enough time to stakeholder. Biased prioritization of requirements happens due to lack of system-wide perspective due to the size of the project. StakeRare uses social media to combat these issues by using collaborative filtering to gather knowledge from relevant requirements according to stakeholders, having stakeholders identify other stakeholders, and then uses stakeholders’ input to rate the requirements. The article evaluates the performance on StakeRare by testing the process on a large scale project the comparing the results in comparison to other elicitation methods. The authors of this article begin by listing the main problems that are associated with large software requirement processes and then summarize how StakeRare will alleviate these through social networks and collaborative filtering in the elicitation process. This is a significant idea in utilizing technology in the software engineering process that have become more widely used since the creation of the more dated requirements elicitation methods. Large scale software projects are more likely to have stakeholders that are more spread out geographically and organizationally. This is due to organizations
In this section, we consider perspectives to increase the inclusivity of software products as well as the skills required by personnel involved in the design and development of software.
Controlled Requirement Expression (CORE) was developed for the British Aerospace programs while the UK Ministry of Defence was carrying out a requirement analysis (Hull et al., 2010). The fundamental component of the CORE methodology is viewpoints as different users see systems in different ways. There are many different stakeholders involved in a system; using CORE methodology involves finding all the different viewpoints of those stakeholders that have an interest in the system whether it’s a person, role or organisation ext.… (Sommerville and Sawyer, 2000). By organising viewpoints hierarchy it assists experts to read the scope and supports the analysis process. CORE Methodology is extensively used for real time system requirements specification.
This phase is the main focus of the project managers and stake holders. Meetings with managers, stake holders and users are held in order to determine the requirements like; Who is going to use the system? How will they use the system? What data should be input into the system? What data should be output by the system? These are general questions that get answered during a requirements gathering phase. After requirement gathering these requirements are analyzed for their validity and the possibility of incorporating the requirements in the system to be development is also studied.
The Urgent Matter Collaborative is a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program was formed to identify, develop, and share innovative approaches, inventions, and models to improve Emergency Department (ED) flow and quality of care. Urgent Matters Collaborative has contributed to ED quality and patient flow improvement by working with hospitals throughout the United States.
Project planning in teams is an integral constituent of team dynamics. When a team has been already formed it is time for it to start working on a project in order to reach the goals of the team or company in a whole. It is necessary to keep in mind two peculiarities about team projects. The first peculiarity is that all projects no matter what their goals are need to be carefully planned and structured before the implementation. And the second peculiarity is that the given projects will be performed not by an individual but a group of individuals, which may result in a certain conflict of interests or other problems, which may be encountered while working with a group of people.
“Technology” is the last step of POST framework. This step decides which social technologies to use as it shows how much of a company’s audience they can reach with various types of social technologies. This decision can be made by understanding and reflecting upon ones people, objective, and strategy. Only then can they confidently select the tools/applications and tactics they’ll use for their
It is well known that the team work is far better than performing a task individually. Such kind of practice plays a very important role in software engineering. A lot of things can be achieved together with the combination of diversified people, as they input different tactics and skills so that the main objective of a certain mission can be accomplished appropriately. Even though teaming up and working for a project is essential and helpful; there exist some issues that could bring interruptions and conflicts in the team.
First is to examine each of those projects to the corporate objectives, compare and contrasting project selection criteria and justify why a project meets the selection criteria.
Interest groups have been a fundamental feature of political environments for numerous centuries. They are voluntary associations created to influence the policy and conduct of government (Watts, 2007). Interest groups aim to shape public opinion by electing and lobbying government members that favour their particular views and support their causes. Interest groups do so, by applying methods of advocacy and campaigning. Advocacy and campaigns are likely to be issue-based with the intention of positively or negatively influencing election cycles and public policy design and implementation (Thuynsma, 2012). Interest groups form to achieve results. They demand pressure on decision makers to run their country the way they believe it should be run,
While developing a software many complex activities are required which in turn have dependencies along them. Large software projects require the involvement of programmers, documentation specialists, program managers, architects, database analysts, system analysts, , and trainers and last but not the least testers. Along with their independent responsibilities these persons are also responsible to maintain and keep a check on the software system quality as well.
For decision making purposes, the projects can be further divided into two groups which is independent project and mutually...
Sometimes, the stakeholders of the projects have their own personal objectives which become a hindrance in carrying out the project successfully.
Talking directly to the stakeholders will help answer most of these key questions. For IT projects meeting the key stakeholders in a forum to review progress on the project is key to its success. Therefore a well drawn up project plan will ensure that there is enough representation of the stakeholders at the regular project review meetings.
Given the time, it takes to develop large sophisticated software systems it not possible to define the problem and build the solution in a single step. Requirements will often change throughout a projects development, due to architectural constraints, customer’s needs or a greater understanding of the original problem. Iteration allows greater understanding of a project through successive refinements and addresses a projects highest risk items at every stage of its lifecycle. Ideally each iteration ends up with an executable release – this helps reduce a projects risk profile, allows greater customer feedback and help developers stay focused.
In Kenya, the idea of social computing is used to do business in various ways in fields such as the film industry which has undergone transformation and is being even advertised on face book and interested parties can easily express their interested across that social network and their requests a...